San Juan for First-Timers — The Greatest Hits

Santaella

Iconic kickoff — Tropical-garden dining room — pulpo a la plancha, plantain gnocchi, perfect rum list.

Drop-in wheel session or paint-and-sip — easy creative plan with a friend or date.

Local produce, street food, buskers — easy solo wander or family morning.

Blue-tile Adoquines streets, pastel colonial houses, cats on every wall.

La Factoría

World's-50-Best cocktail temple — eight rooms, salsa in the back, rum-soaked.

16th-century Spanish citadel on a clifftop — fly a kite on the lawn at sunset.